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title: Create an activity in the Audit Workspace
description: Create an activity that explores and provides documented evidence of whether the associated control is operating correctly or not.
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product: Audit Management
classification: audit-management
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Audit Task Management, Audit Supervisor Workspace, Audit Workspace Overview, Audit Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
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# Create an activity in the Audit Workspace

Create an activity that explores and provides documented evidence of whether the associated control is operating correctly or not.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_audit.manager, sn\_audit\_ws.supervisor

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Audit** > **Audit Workspace**.

2.  Select the lists icon \(\[Omitted image "ListsIcon.jpg"\] Alt text: List icon.\).

3.  Select **All engagements** or **My engagements** in the Execution list.

    Assign an audit task to an engagement that is in one of the following states:

    -   Validate
    -   Fieldwork
4.  Select the link to the engagement record in the **Name** column.

    The engagement record details open in the **Overview** tab.

5.  Select the Audit tasks related list.

6.  Click the grouped button below the related lists and select **New activity** from the list.

7.  On the form, fill in the fields.

<table id="table_m54_5g2_mqb"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Number

</td><td>

Unique identification number.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Name

</td><td>

Name of the activity.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Parent

</td><td>

Parent audit task or parent engagement.

</td></tr><tr><td>

State

</td><td>

State of the activity. The default state is **Open**.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Detailed description of the activity.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Assignment

</td></tr><tr><td>

Assigned to

</td><td>

User assigned to the activity.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Schedule

</td></tr><tr><td>

Planned start date

</td><td>

Intended start date of the activity.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Planned end date

</td><td>

Intended end date of the activity.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Planned duration

</td><td>

Expected duration of the activity. As with actual duration, the planned duration shows total activity time and takes the activity schedule into consideration.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Actual start date

</td><td>

Actual start date of the activity.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Actual end date

</td><td>

Actual end date of the activity.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Actual duration

</td><td>

Actual duration of the activity from its start to its closure.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Activity

</td></tr><tr><td>

Additional comments

</td><td>

Comments that customers can also view.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Work notes \(Private\)

</td><td>

Comments that the audit manager and audit supervisor can only view.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Confidentiality

</td></tr><tr><td>

Confidential

</td><td>

Option to enable confidentiality of the record. Only the assigned confidential users or confidential groups of users can access the record.For more information on the confidential option, see [Confidentiality flag for audit and compliance records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/confidentiality-flag-audit-pc.md).

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>8.  Select **Save**.

    You can monitor the status of the activity in the **State** banner of the Overview page.